Navigate every batch. Never lose a great idea again.
Chocolate Lab is your personal workspace for recipes, roast curves, grind notes, and finishing plans. Start as a solo maker, then grow into a shared lab when your operation and team expand.
Chocolate Lab is ideal for personal and pilot-scale makers. When you're ready to connect equipment and teams, you can layer on FactoryLink and Maker Workshop tiers — without losing your recipe history.
Every bar starts as a hypothesis. Chocolate Lab keeps your hypotheses, test runs, and “happy accidents” in one place so you can come back to them later — even after months of production.
- Track roast, grind, conche, and temper decisions per batch.
- Save notes on sensory outcomes and customer reactions.
- Clone a favorite bar to adjust just one variable at a time.
Everything you need to run a serious chocolate lab.
Chocolate Lab focuses on what makers actually do: tweak roast curves, adjust grind times, try new inclusions, and chase specific texture and flavor goals — while keeping a clean history of what worked.
Structured recipes, not loose docs
Capture beans, percentages, process steps, and timing in a format made for chocolate — not a general spreadsheet or note app.
Roast–grind–conche–temper is first-class, not an afterthought.
Batch history & folders
Group related experiments into folders: origin trials, inclusion series, milk and dark variations, or seasonal runs.
Great for makers who run lots of small tests before choosing a hero bar.
Copy, tweak, compare
Clone any saved batch, tweak one or two parameters, and keep track of which version tasted best in blind tastings or events.
Turn intuition into a traceable recipe evolution.
Chocolate Lab Free vs Chocolate Lab Hobbyist.
Start with Chocolate Lab Free to capture your core recipes. Upgrade to Hobbyist when you're tracking more bars, more experiments, or working with a small team.
| Feature | Chocolate Lab Free | Chocolate Lab Hobbyist |
|---|---|---|
| Who it’s for | Solo makers keeping track of a handful of core bars and experiments. | Serious hobbyists and small labs running many variations and seasons. |
| Recipe & batch history | Enough space for your main recipes and a limited set of experiments. | Expanded history so you can keep long-running series and event runs. |
| Folders & organization | Basic lab with simple lists. | Full folder structure for organizing by origin, series, events, or clients. |
| Team access | Best suited to a single maker logging their own work. | Invite another maker or helper into the same workspace as you grow. |
| Export & sharing | Copy/paste and simple export for your own records. | More flexible exports for sharing with collaborators or consultants. |
| FactoryLink & Maker Workshop path | Great starting point; upgrade when you’re ready for equipment tracking. | Designed to step smoothly into Maker Workshop and FactoryLink. |
One lab. Three connected tools.
Chocolate Lab is the “maker notebook” inside CocoaCraft Hub. When you're ready, it connects directly to FactoryLink for production and to Formulation tools for cost and scale-up analysis.
Chocolate Lab
Capture recipes and experiments at the bench. Perfect for 1–2 makers refining a lineup or running a pilot program.
This page you're on now.
FactoryLink
Map those recipes to real equipment: melangers, roasters, and packaging lines. Track run history and drift across machines and sites.
Geared toward production and operations teams.
Formulation & costing
Analyze ingredient costs, yields, and nutritional data so your favorite bar doesn't just taste good — it also makes business sense.
Ideal for scaling from lab to full release.
A simple flow for everyday use in the lab.
Chocolate Lab is meant to be quick enough to use in the middle of a busy shift, not just during quiet R&D days.
Capture the idea
Create a new recipe or clone an existing one. Set your target flavor, texture, and any constraints like time, equipment, or cost.
Run & record a batch
As you roast, grind, and conche, record key parameters and quick notes. You don't have to log everything — just what you'll want later.
Review & decide
After tastings or events, flag which batches you want to repeat, which need tweaks, and which were one-off experiments.
Sign in to view your recipes — or step up to more control.
If you're just starting out, Chocolate Lab Free is a great way to get organized. As your lab grows, Chocolate Lab Hobbyist and Maker Workshop give you more structure, collaboration, and production tools.